Word: designate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed to erect a skyscraper with Calvary Baptist Church as its core. Trustees resigned while Dr. Straton organized legal battles to justify his design. In this year also he frequented dance halls and composed his pornographic peroration upon the modern dance: "Crowded together . . . surging up and down . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace . . . with the cheek of the man against the cheek of the girl . . . sensuous strains of oriental music . . their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were actually indecent . . . cigaret smoke . . . fumes of whisky . . . tipsy girls . . . young women who were raving drunk . . . surging . . . women...
...unfamiliar. Similar scenes had been observable just a year ago, and again last February. As every true follower of fashion knows, there are two months in the year when the couturiers open their magnificent salons to the view of a favored few, display their latest triumphs of design, reveal what the well-dressed woman will wear for the next six months...
...Norwegian, my blood boiled at these words which I have kept. But perhaps we are a patient people. Our newspapers continued not unfriendly to Nobile; and when he set out in the Italia, a dirigible of his own design, to prove that he, he, HE could circle the Pole, we wished him well. It was only when the faulty design of the Italia caused her to crumple, that my own heart became troubled. Too well I knew, as did all Norwegians, that Amundsen would feel compelled to rescue Nobile, because the Italian had wronged...
...other works are scattered through out the world, in museums, on battlefields, in ocean liners, in parks or outside of great houses. Several are in the Louvre; the architects of the Cheney Bros, building in Manhattan persuaded him to design the great iron doors, window frames, screens, trees for the display of their silks. He designed the tall iron gates at the entrance to the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris three years ago where he received the highest prize. Describing the things he has made by their ordinary names makes it seem that Brandt is no more than...
...Paris Prize of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, providing $3,600 for two and a half years' study at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Last week one Thomas H. Locraft, 24, student at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, won it for his design of "A Supreme Court Building of a Republic." More extraordinary than the prowess of the winner was that of the Yale University School of Fine Arts which supplied three prize winners in the competition-A. J. Kelsey, who was second, A. E. Euston, third, D. A. White, fourth-and the remaining contestant...